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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Once upon a time we had multiple books as documentation, then at some 
> point we merged them. It was quite a few years ago.
> I would agree at this point that we need to consider breaking them up 
> again. The documentation is unwieldy.

The reason we merged them was to allow hyperlink cross-references between
different parts of the docs.  I would be sad to lose that.

			regards, tom lane


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